Art and Culture

As a tween, Sunny Choi was a serious gymnast on an Olympic track but decided she should get a real education and job — eventually becoming a senior exec at Estée Lauder. But when breaking was admitted to the Olympics, she decided to…
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Books & the Arts / March 12, 2024 What happened to the 21st-century city? Ad Policy Illustration by Ryan Inzana. This article appears in the March 2024 issue. When I was younger, growing up in the rural but…
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At the core of cultural stagnation is “entanglement,” writes Douthat—“meaning the way that the economic, demographic, intellectual, and cultural elements of our predicament are all connected, so that you can’t just pick out a single…
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When it comes to art, “nothing beats holding it in your hand,” Ms. DuVernay said.“That tactile intimacy of touch is something that sounds kind of flighty and unimportant, but touch is a sense,” she said. “It is a part of the experience…
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The concept of “fake artists” on Spotify is a story we’ve been following closely since way back in 2016.The existence of fake artists on the platform is now a well-known fact: Music released by musicians under pseudonyms, who have no…
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March 19, 2024 @ 10:21 AM Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of local newspapers, will stop using the Associated Press’ content starting next week, a significant blow to the not-for-profit wire service collective that…
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In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. – The New York Times…
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“Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay a flat rate for access to shows, have leapt in popularity…
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Updated 1:30 p.m. ET on May 10, 2023“Do a Dance”The trend started, as so many do, on TikTok. Amazon customers, watching packages arrive through Ring doorbell devices, asked the people making the deliveries to dance for the camera. The…
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